The Palm Beach Country Club is where Madoff is said to have prospected for marks.

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Then there was the time in the early 1980s when he prospected for gold in the jungles of Mexico.

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The region has not been fully prospected and there've been wildly varying estimates of how much oil might lie beneath the Sea.

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One of the great unwritten histories of the tech revolution is how hot new industries, prospected by innovative young companies, get hijacked by established companies that merely re-label what they already have to confuse the issue and then triumph through marketing muscle.

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Then there was the time in the early 1980s when he prospected for gold in the jungles of Mexico, where his life was threatened first by a doped-up expatriate then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.

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Rare among hotel alliances, the association returns all profits to its members and derives only about a quarter of its revenue from membership fees. (The rest comes from guest booking fees and gift certificates.) Of the hundreds of hotels that are prospected and inspected each year, only about 30% are invited to join.

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